Tea Leoni Quotations

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

I'm not a huge fan of my work.

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work

Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

Yes, I think motherhood has almost everything to do with it, but when I was pregnant with my daughter, I thought I'll never work again.

I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

I've looked at my roster and I'm ready to hold it up against Nicole Kidman. I mean, I got everybody she's got except for Tom and a few others.

I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

The inner conflict is what makes the spin so much fun, what makes it more colorful. I actually can't imagine playing someone who wasn't neurotic.

And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett

I have always loathed working out

I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

It's kind of fun to be sexy.

In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.

Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

Shopping turns me off.

What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.

I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. [after having her daughter]

I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community

Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is. He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience. He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.

David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will you marry me?'

I don't do T&A very well because I haven't got much of either

There is no greater cause than making the world fit for children. I feel very strongly about carrying on the family tradition by working with UNICEF to help improve the lives and well-being of children everywhere.